Portrait #1156

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Longfellow
  • Artist:Stewart Treviranus after Thomas S. Scott
  • Date Created:unknown
  • Owner/Location:Belle Meade Plantation 5025 Harding Road Nashville, TN 37205
  • Frame Dimensions:18 1/4 x 22 1/4
  • Image Dimensions:12 3/4 x 18
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on Canvas
  • Date Documented:16 November 2007
  • Condition:Good
  • Description:Painting depicts the bay stallion Longfellow facing left in a field. There is a pale muted gray/blue sky with a pale green and tan muted foreground. Longfellow was a bay stallion with a star, stripe, and snip. He had a left hind sock to his fetlock and a right hind white coronet band.
  • History:Frame is a giltwood molding with brass plaque inscribed, “Longfellow/1867/Imp./Leamington-Nantura by Brawner’s Eclipse/Belle Meade.” Portrait is signed in lower right corner. Original By Thomas S. Scott who was a British artist who lived from 1854-1927. Copy of Work completed by Treviranus.
  • Notes:Longfellow was by Leamington out of Nantura by Browner’s Eclipse. He was foaled in 1867. Location: East Side Hall